Word: dormant
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There were warning signs. Back in December the FBI and a number of private security firms began detecting countless dormant daemons cropping up on servers across the country. Scan yourselves with detection software, urged the hacker trackers. Evidently not enough sites did. That changed after the attack; downloads of the Feds' scanning tool shot up from 170 on Monday to 4,223 on Thursday...